2006
What a great fuucking year we have here. This also happens to be the year my ex-girlfriend and I packed up and moved across the country from Houston to Seattle. Good riddance! I was already buying a lot of music before, but I think moving to a new city, not knowing anyone, and being surrounded by record stores caused an uptick in my purchasing. I think I doubled my collection in a couple of years. Anyway all of that isn't really relevant to the year's top 10. The Knife released their best so far, as did mewithoutYou even though I didn't realize it at the time. Clark's
Body Riddle is up there as a favorite of mine but was eventually topped by 2009's
Totems Flare. I didn't discover Alamo Race Track until several years later, but this is also their best album. I'm not familiar with Melvins' entire discography, but this is certainly their best post-90s release to date, up there with
Houdini and
Stoner Witch. And Plaid - having left fans anxious for new material since 2003's
Spokes - released the stunning soundtrack to an Anime film which to me was better than Spokes.
Spotify Playlist - 2006 Top 10+
1.
The Knife -
Silent Shout
2.
mewithoutYou -
Brother, Sister
3.
Clark -
Body Riddle
4.
Melvins -
(A) Senile Animal
5.
TV on the Radio -
Return to Cookie Mountain
6.
Band of Horses -
Everything All the Time
7.
Plaid -
Tekkonkinkreet OST
8.
Alamo Race Track -
Black Cat John Brown
9.
The Mars Volta -
Amputechture
10.
Built to Spill -
You In Reverse
